Please join us for our second RDA Interest Group Meeting on October 22^nd from 10-12 (coffee at 9:30) at Sachem Public Library!

Please RSVP to Tom Cohn by October 17: tom_cohn@huntlib.org

RDA Flyer Fall 2014

ChromeBox OPAC Instructions

Guide to setting up a Google Chromebox as an OPAC courtesy of Melanie Hedgespeth of the Salinas Public Library, as presented by Eric Cohen of JJML at the TIF meeting on 4/3/2014.

Melanie’s document contains a long list of Blacklist exceptions because she allows patrons to use the Chromebox for other library-related purposes in addition to accessing the catalog. Also her list has exeptions for her catalog, not the PALS catalog. If you would like to set up a your Chromebox as a more traditional (and limited) OPAC with access to the PALS catalog, use the following for your Blacklist extensions:

alpha1.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
btol.com/
encore.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
johnjermain.org/
lilink.org/
pals.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
www.johnjermain.org/
live-brary.com/
encore.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
lib.syndetics.com/
contentcafe2.btol.com/
imagesa.btol.com/
imagesb.btol.com/
imagesc.btol.com/
imageserver.ebscohost.com/
ebscohost.com/
novselect.ebscohost.com/
www.goodreads.com/
downloads.live-brary.com/

Of course, this list may be modifies to suit your needs.

Executive Board 2014

President
James Matias

VP/President Elect
Xibe Solis

Treasurer
Eileen DeSimone

Secretary
Kelly Harris

Past President
Stephen Ingram

Members at Large (8)

Bob Johnson

Dominic Iadicco

Tom Cohn

Lisa Bitran

Mary O’Grady

Paul Zukowski

Danielle Zubiller

Min Liu

Cats RDA 2013 FLYER

RSVP cats@scla.net

No registration required

Wednesday, November 13th
SCLS Auditorium
627 N. Sunrise Highway, Bellport, NY
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
(Coffee and refreshments served at 9:30)

Resource Description and Access (RDA): Changes for Users and Catalogers. A presentation by Natalia Tomlin.

Resource Description and Access (RDA) launched in 2010 as the successor to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Revised, Second Edition (AACR2). The rules of this new cataloging code, as enumerated in the online utility RDA Toolkit, have led to the current period of transition for the cataloging community. RDA represents a shift in cataloging practice aimed to support the digital environment and to improve the user experience by heightening the discoverability of materials and collections. Join Natalia Tomlin, Technical Services Librarian at B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library at LIU Post, for a morning of learning about RDA principles, vocabulary, new content in bibliographic records and resulting changes in OPAC display.  This presentation will be of interest to working catalogers and other Technical Services personnel, as well as Reference Librarians and everyone else who is curious about the changes they see in OPAC records.

No registration required

RSVP cats@scla.net

A demonstration of Mobile Millennium, running Millennium from portable devices and

SCLS will be hosting our October TIF Meeting on Wednesday, October 16, 2013.

This is a date change. 

For a copy of the flyer click here.

Congratulations to Margaret Hennings of the Huntington Public Library who was the winner of our Kindle Fire HD raffle.

Thanks to all of you who attended the Long Island Library Conference and visited the CATS table. Special congratulations to the Long Island Library Conference Committee for another successful year.

Links to the slides from two of our presentations are below:

Promises and Perils of Mobile Communication

Bob Johnson
http://portal.sliderocket.com/BRIFG/LILC-2013_1

Stephen Ingram
Mobile LILC presentation 2013

Future-proof Your Library Through Collaboration: Where Reference Meets Technology

Ellen Druda
LILC2013Presentation1

Bob Johnson
http://portal.sliderocket.com/BRIFG/Reference_Tech

Stephen Ingram
Future proof 2013

Look for more upcoming CATS programs.

Thanks
Stephen Ingram
President CATS